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ABSTRACT

An aerial projectile resting on a flat hard floor is stricken two consecutive times with a stick, the first strike made in a vertical swing and at right angle to one of the projectile&#39;s flat-tapered face with straight-edge ends propels it upward and in mid air and perpendicularly to the floor, and spinning on its larger axis; the second strike made in a waist-high horizontal baseball-like swing, said swings made within an interval of about two seconds between the first and second strike on the same projectile, making the projectile travel through the air in a trajectory horizontal to the floor and landing on the floor far from its original rest position.

CROSS-REFERENES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

U.S. Pat. No. 2,485,788-A

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Technical Field

The field of art to which the invention pertains to is Art Unit 3711,Class 473, Games Using Tangible Projectile (i.e., U.S. Pat. No.2,485,788 A).

Background Art

The proposed invention modifies an aerial projectile such as the onereferenced to in publication Burton Silver, New Zealand Golf Cross,1988, and the prior Non-Provisional Patent Application #14660600.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The invention modifies the solid round rod of tapered pointed ends ofthe referenced projectiles, with rectangular bar tapered straight-edgeends, each enhanced with a flat and larger surface-area for an easierstrike with a stick, as opposed to a much smaller surface-area on thesolid round rod of tapered pointed ends of the referenced projectiles,which strike helps generate the angular momentum required to propel themodified aerial projectile in the air when stricken twice with a stick,said swings made within an interval of about two seconds between thefirst and second strike on the same projectile, thus improving thehand-eye coordination of users.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

A side view of Item-1 is shown in FIG. 1A of length H, is an aerialprojectile tapering longitudinally from the four straight edges W2 ofthe wide flat strip of area H1 by W2, to each opposite straight-edgeend, with rectangular sectional view 3-3 shown in FIG. 1B throughout itslength H, and across its width W2, and its height W1.

A side view of Item-2 is shown in FIG. 2A is a striking round rod withlength L; with round cross-sectional view 4-4 shown in FIG. 2B, withdiameter W throughout its length.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of item-1 resting on item-3 a hardsurface/floor, and a view of item-2 being grabbed by a person by one ofits ends, just before item-1 is stricken by item-2 on the first strike.

DETAILED BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

Item-1 is a side view of an aerial projectile constructed out of hardwood solid rectangular-bar material or hard plastic solidrectangular-bar material about three and one quarter inches long H, byabout one and one quarter inches high WI, by about one inch wide W2;it's made by cutting a piece of the rectangular-bar with a saw to alength H, and both of its straight-edge ends are formed/tapered startingat right angle from edge W2, and machined toward each straight-edge endof item-I with a planer machine. The one-quarter inch flat strips, ofarea H1 by W2, are designed to hold the projectile in a horizontalrest-position, when placed on the floor.

Item-2 is a side view of a striking-stick round-rod constructed out ofhard wood solid round-rod material or hard plastic solid round-rodmaterial about one and one quarter inches in diameter W. Its length Lmeasures about twenty inches, with uniform round cross-sectional shapealong its entire length; it's made by cutting a piece of round-rod witha saw to length L.

The invention has been successfully tried with Item-1 and Item-2 beingmade out of hard wood solid rectangular-bar material and solid round-rodmaterial, respectively.

The proposed invention works as follows. On a flat hard surface (i.e.,floor), a person places Item-1 with its length H and oriented parallelto the person's chest, and resting horizontal to the floor, with eitherof the projectile's tapered face resting on the floor. The same persongrabs Item-2 by one of its ends, positions him/herself with feet spreadapart as in a baseball batting position, facing Item-1. The person bendshis/her torso toward Item-1 with bent knees and close enough to Item-1to strike it with Item-2 free end. The strike is made thru a verticalswing aimed at one of Item-2 flat tapered-area ends. The strike exerts aforce at right angle on the flat-tapered-area end of Item-1, propellingit in the air in an upward/spinning motion on its larger axis The longertime item-1 is in the air, the better chance the person has forpreparing to strike Item-1 a second time while in the air which isperformed in a baseball-like swing, said swings made within an intervalof about two seconds between the first and second strike on the sameprojectile, with the intention of striking Item-1 with item-2 as far aspossible from the projectile's original rest position.

1. An aerial projectile, comprising:
 1. a solid rectangular-bar offlat-tapered straight-edge ends, able to rest on its own ready-to-strikeposition, and a solid round-rod striking-stick for enabling saidprojectile to travel in the air; whereby said projectile travels in theair far from its original/rest position, when stricken in twoconsecutive swings with said stick on one of said ends, within aninterval of about two seconds between the first and second strike onsaid projectile.